The Sisterhood

Greek life is one of the most iconic aspects of the college students experience. If you go to a college that has a Greek Life presence on campus, it will inevitably be an influential aspect of your college experience, regardless of personal membership. Greek Life is made up of both fraternities and sororities that get involved with the community by participating in philanthropic events. These organizations’ members become brothers and sisters through their involvement with his/her respective…

The bond of sisterhood sings a melodious lullaby to sail in the storm Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a multifarious writer, a poet, novelist and a story teller. Her writings weave around the world of feminism. Divakaruni’s creations are directed mainly towards women of all cadres who share a common experience. This paper ponders the eternal bond between the protagonists in Sister Of My Heart. As a Diasporic writer Chitra Banerjee has caught the ground breaking idea in the bonds between the…

For my first essay I will be writing about the Greek cookout I went to on Monday September 5th, 2016. It was a very hot day, with no clouds in the sky, so all you felt were the sun beams hitting your skin. This was an informal event for the Greeks and students of George Mason University to get to know each other and just have a fun time; with music and food that got cooked on the grill. I went to this event with the intentions of finding which sorority I felt the most connection/ comfortable…

tight friendship. They slowly start to realize me and Jessica’s relationship wasn’t just a friendship but it was a sisterhood. To some standards a sisterhood is shared between the same race but with me and Jessica’s sisterhood it was unique. Our sisterhood was between a young African American girl and Caucasian girl. We did not show any concern to the world’s standards of a sisterhood. Our ability to not perceive race or color strengthened our bond to an extent I could never put into words.…

Larson displays how womanhood in the 19th century addressed many unique qualities exhibited by women of all color from their experiences throughout history dealing with the changes in society (739). Womanhood of women formed a cult expressing dominance over the merciless mindsets of the world on women, color, and social class. The world’s mindset formed an unblemished and pure illustration of what a woman stood for, should stand for, and placed value on a woman’s worth by their womanhood virtues…

with any greek organization. The greek system have not gained my interest before, but once I decided to rush and went to their informational I was 100% convinced to join. Why I joined? I part-take because rushing for aKDPhi was a blast. I love the sisterhood they have, before coming to MSU I was afraid of being homesick and feel lonely. Now I that I am in this sorority, there is another family who support and take care of me like my parents. I wanted to be part of something because back in high…

"saved" her sister from misplaced desire in much the same way that Lizzie saves Laura. Another biographical angle from which the poem is approached is that of Rossetti's work as a "sister" within the Anglican Sisterhoods of the Oxford Movement during the 1850s and 1860s. The work of the sisterhoods involved the reform of prostitutes and the reintroduction of reformed women into mainstream society. Critics such as Mary Wilson Carpenter (1991) argue that interaction with these women accounts for…

diverse, yet they define the diversity by looks. In reality, sisterhood can grow out of friendships that already exist because most women will go through recruitment with their existing friends (Handler 1995). To create a sisterhood, sorority members spend a lot of time together. They dress the same, eat together, and attend the same social events (Arthur 1998). Sororities women are more peer and family orientated (Kimbrough 1995). This sisterhood bond is for some sorority members are required…

Mountain Day, Pangy Day, and Convocation are three of the most anticipated traditions in Mount Holyoke College; however, there is one tradition that no one knows until the middle of October, it is called Elfing. Elfing is a tradition between the first years and the sophomores. It has been around for more than fifty years. Elfing was not really called Elfing until the year of 1966 when the first years of that class said enough was enough; the class decided that instead of hazing the first years…

uniformity as women as identified by Lorde, I argue that there are also important benefits to using terms such as “sisterhood”. It provides empowerment and a sense of unity between women that would be otherwise difficult to establish due to those various differences. It reminds women of the fact that at the root, we share similar hardships and struggles. The use of powerful words such as “sisterhood” has the unique ability of linking people of various races, sexual orientations, backgrounds,…